How to consume He Shou Wu

He Shou Wu is a commonly used herbal medicine, we generally know is the use of He Shou Wu when the body does not feel well to regulate. In fact, in everyday life, adding He Shou Wu to make medicinal meals and other methods can also play a very good health effect. Here we will learn how to eat He Shou Wu.

Medicinal use

Internally, decoction, 10-20 grams; boiled in paste, steeped in wine or in pills or powder. Externally: decoction and wash, grinded and sprinkled or mixed and applied. For nourishing the blood and nourishing the yin, prepared he shou wu is used; for laxative, dispelling wind, intercepting malaria and detoxifying, raw he shou wu is used.

Radix Polygoni Multiflori Carp Soup

Ingredients: 1 carp, 10 Radix Polygoni Multiflori, pepper, salt, 1 tbsp of cooking wine. Directions: Fill a large bowl with 500 ml of water and steam the carp in a pot for 1 hour. Scrape the carp, remove the guts and gills, and cut into segments. Bring the pot to a boil with the right amount of water over high heat, add the carp segments, wait for the water to boil again, then turn to low heat and simmer slowly for about 2 hours, and finally in add the He Shou Wu broth and simmer slowly. Add salt, cooking wine and pepper to taste. Efficacy: can Lishui strengthen the spleen and regulate blood lipids.

Boiled eggs with Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni

Ingredients: 100 grams of Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, 2 eggs. Lard, ginger, salt, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate in appropriate amounts. Directions: Wash and cut the Radix et Rhizoma Polygonatum into pieces. Put the eggs and Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati together in a casserole dish, add water in the right amount, and add onion, ginger, salt and wine. Bring to a boil over a high flame and then simmer over a low flame until the egg is cooked. At this point, remove the eggs, soak the shells with water, and then continue to cook in the pot for about 2 minutes, add a little MSG when serving, eat the eggs and drink the soup. Effect: It can nourish the liver and kidney. Benefit essence and blood, for blood weakness, dizziness, early graying of the hair of the people taking.

He Shou Wu beef in pot

Ingredients: 15 grams of Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, 75 grams of beef, longan meat and red dates. Directions: Wash the Radix et Rhizoma with water and set aside. Cut the beef into small pieces, add a small amount of ginger in the pot with the boiling water, remove the fat and Cang, then add Shou Wu, longan meat and red dates, and then cook for 1 hour on a gentle fire. Effects: Benefit essence, nourish liver and kidney, strengthen tendons and bones, replenish deficiency, suitable for weakness of spleen and stomach, weakness of waist and knees, etc.